Soft-collar holder



F. GUIDRY.

SOFT COLLAR HOLDER APPLICATION FILED con 27, 1921.

Patented R1128, 1922.

bodiment is shown in UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK GUIDRY, OF ORANGE, TEXAS.

SOFT-COLLAR HOLDER.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that FRANK GUIDR-Y, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at Orange, in the county of Orange and State of Texas,has invented new and useful lmprovements in Soft-Collar Holders, ofwhich the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to provide a soft collar holder for menswear as a means for retaining or securing the front edges of the collarflap or fbld, and the particular object in view is to provide a. devicefor thepurpose which can be readily'applied and removed but whicheffectively holds the collar in the proper position when appliedthereto; and with this object in. view the invention consists in aconstruction and combination of parts of which a preferred emtheaccompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure 1 is a view of a collar holder embodying the invention applied inthe operative position to a collar.

Figure 2 is a tached.

Figure 3 is a side view of the same.

The device consists of a base plate or strip plan view of the holder de-10 having terminal jaws l1, arms 12 pivotally mounted as at 13 upon ears14 upstruck from the base plate or strip and provided at their outerends with jaws 15 which are complemental to the terminal jaws of thebase plate or strip, and a follower plate 16 having terminal pivotalconnection with the inner ends of said arms and is provided with anactuating spring 17 interposed between the plane thereof and that of thebase plate or strip to yieldingly hold said follower plate in spacedrelation with the base plate or strip and thereby hold the jaws at theouter ends of the arms in operative or engaging relation with the jawsat the extremities of the base plate or strip.

The complemental jaws carried respective ly by the base plate or stripandthe pivotal arms are preferably provided with interlocking faces asfor example and as shown in the drawing by having the jaws of saidSpecification of Letters Patent. Patented Feb, 28, 1922. Applicationfiled October 27, 1921.

Serial No. 510,758.

arms convexed for reception by cavities in the jaws of the plate, to theend that an effective en agement of the jaws with the ends of the col armay be secured.

To separate the jaws in the application of the device to the collar orin the removal of the same therefrom it is only necessary to press thefollower plate toward the plane of the base plate, and upon the releaseof said follower plate the spring serves to close the jaws and therebyclamp the interposed portions of the collar and maintain the same in.the roper relation.

Having descri the invention, what is claimed as new and useful is 1. Asoft collar; holder having a base plate or strip provided with terminaljaws, arms pivotally mounted upon the base plate or strip and providedat their remote ends with jaws cooperating with those at the extremitiesof the base plate, and a common actuating means for the arms.

2. A soft collar holder having a base plate or strip provided withterminal jaws, arms pivotally mounted uponthe base plate or strip andprovided at their remote ends with jaws cooperating with those at theextremities of the base plate, and'means for yieldingly holding the jawsin their closed relations, and including a spring actuated followerplate connected with the inner ends of said arms.

3. A soft collar holder having a base plate or strip provided withterminal jaws, arms pivotally mounted upon, the base plate or strip andprovided at their remote ends with jaws cooperatingwith those at theextremities of the base p'late, and means for yieldingly holding thejaws in their closed relations and consisting of a follower plate havingterminal pivotal connection with the inner extremities of said armsand aspring interposed between the follower plate and the base plate. 1

In testimony whereof he aflixes his signature.

FRANK GUIDRY.

